Wellington Regional Stadium

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Sky Stadium
The Cake Tin
The Ring of Fire
Wellington Regional Stadium as seen from Wadestown (2006)
Wellington Regional Stadium as seen from Wadestown (2006)
Earlier names

WestpacTrust Stadium (2000-2002)
Westpac Stadium (2002-2019)

Data
place 147 Waterloo Quay 6011 Wellington , New Zealand
New ZealandNew Zealand
Coordinates 41 ° 16 '22.8 "  S , 174 ° 47' 9"  O Coordinates: 41 ° 16 '22.8 "  S , 174 ° 47' 9"  O
owner Wellington Regional Stadium Trust ( Wellington Region and Wellington City Council)
operator Wellington Regional Stadium Trust
start of building March 12, 1998
opening January 3, 2000
surface Natural grass
costs $ 130 million NZ
architect Architecture Warren & Mahoney Ltd,
Populous (later Bligh Lobb Sports Architecture)
capacity 36,000 places
(expandable to a maximum of 40,000 places)
Societies)
Events

The Wellington Regional Stadium (through sponsorship agreement officially Sky Stadium ) is a rugby - and football stadium in the New Zealand capital Wellington . Although the residents of Wellington denote it by its original name, or simply talk about the "stage", the arena is because of their characteristic architecture of many inhabitants of the land colloquially "Cake Tin" ( German  cake pan called). The venue offers space for 36,000 spectators, but the capacity can be temporarily increased to a maximum of 40,000 seats.

history

The foundation stone for the Wellington Regional Stadium, located at the city's harbor, was laid in March 1998. The opening ceremony finally took place on January 3, 2000. The stadium was built by Fletcher Construction . With the inauguration of the building about a kilometer north of the city center on the site of a former marshalling yard in the immediate vicinity of Wellington Central Station, the city's most important stadium at the time, Athletic Park , which had previously been in a state of dilapidation for years, was replaced. The latter venue was demolished immediately afterwards and released for residential development. Although the new arena is one of the most modern in the country and is located in the capital, it does not have the status of a “ national stadium ”.

The sports arena is mainly used for rugby union games and - because of its oval playing field, also possible - cricket games. The two rugby union teams that use the sports facility as their home arena are the Hurricanes , who compete in the multinational Super Rugby league, and Wellington's provincial team, the Wellington Rugby Football Union , which takes part in the Air New Zealand Cup . The Wellington Firebirds play New Zealand national cricket and the New Zealand national team has more international matches in ODI and Twenty20 cricket, while tests in town continue to be held in the Basin Reserve . Other sports that are played in the Sky stage Australian Rules football , rugby league and soccer , which gained popularity since 2007, when Wellington Phoenix has been established to the New Zealand Knights in the Australian Pro Football League A-League to replace .

In addition to the above sporting encounters, the facility serves as a location for a variety of events and concerts. In 2000, for example, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo , the largest music event in Scotland, was held in the newly opened stadium - for the first time outside of Scotland. Other events included the appearance of the Rolling Stones on their “A Bigger Bang Tour” and a show by World Wrestling Entertainment .

In the summer of 2019, the New Zealand broadcaster Sky Television became the new name sponsor of the stadium. After around 20 years as the Westpac Trust Stadium and Westpac Stadium , it is called the Sky Stadium . The contract has a term of six years.

gallery

  • Cricket match at Westpac Stadium (2006)

  • Exterior view (2006)

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World Cup qualifier between New Zealand and Peru (0-0) on November 11, 2017. With 37,034 spectators, a record attendance for a football match in New Zealand.

Web links

Commons : Wellington Regional Stadium  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sky TV buys naming rights to Wellington's Westpac Stadium. In: nzherald.co.nz. NZ Herald , August 22, 2019, accessed June 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ World Cup qualification. Play-offs 2017 - Games - New Zealand 0-0 Peru. In: weltfussball.de. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .